# MAL-2025-5455: Malicious code in red-bull-venue-tools (npm)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `red-bull-venue-tools` (npm)
- **Published:** 22 Jun 2025

## What is MAL-2025-5455?

MAL-2025-5455 is a malicious package in red-bull-venue-tools, published on 22 Jun 2025. 

### Official description

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

package.json declares preinstall=`node index.js`, which fires automatically on `npm install`. index.js collects host reconnaissance — os.hostname(), os.platform()/arch, os.homedir(), os.userInfo() (username/uid/gid/shell), `whoami` and `id` shell command output via child_process.exec, OS info, and cwd — and POSTs the JSON payload to a hardcoded Burp Collaborator OAST subdomain at https://theyfiesr9w2p5moyrr9yn6lscy3mvak.oastify.com/detox56. The package name impersonates a Red Bull brand namespace, consistent with a targeted reconnaissance / dependency-confusion probe against an internal Red Bull build environment. Installer harm is concrete: every `npm install` of this version leaks installer identity and host fingerprint to an attacker-controlled out-of-band destination.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-5455?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2025-5455 is a malicious package: red-bull-venue-tools (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-5455/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-5455/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-5455

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-5455/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.